Shame and intimate abuse: The critical missing link between cause and cure.
by Mills, Linda G.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Children and Youth Services Review. 30(2008):631-638. Intimate abuse scholars have not, in general, recognized how central shame is in motivating perpetrators toward violence and in overshadowing a victim’s experience of abuse. By teasing out what I call the shameful...
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Te Ara Hohou Rongo (The Path to Peace): Maori Conceptualisations of Inter-group Forgiveness.
by Rata, Arama
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) New Zealand Joumai of Psychology. 37(2):18-30. A reasonable body of psychological research focusing on forgiveness in interpersonal contexts has highlighted its benefits to psychological wellbeing (McCullouch, 2001; Enright, 2001; Murray, 2002), However, much of the existing...
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The promise of mediation for North Dakota.
by Antes, James R.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) North Dakota Law Review. 84(3):669-704. The purpose of this article is to provide a history of mediation practice in North Dakota. A number of the pioneers of mediation practice in North Dakota provided interviews and a picture of the history of mediation practice. Research...
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Creating space for young people, dialogue and decision making : youth justice conferencing in New South Wales Australia.
by Bolitho, Jane
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Social Science and Policy, University of New South Wales. This study examines the process of Youth Justice Conferencing in New South Wales within the context of the...
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Trust and power-distance: cross-cultural issues in juvenile justice conferencing.
by Sivasubramaniam, Diane
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Thesis submitted for degree of Doctor of Philosophy. School of Psychology, University of New South Wales. Conferencing is a Restorative Justice practice operating in juvenile justice systems in Australia. Some conferences are convened by police, despite research demonstrating...
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‘Rewriting history’ : towards a genealogy of ‘restorative justice.’
by Richards, Kelly M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. College of Health and Science.University of Western Sydney. This thesis considers how ‘restorative justice’ has emerged as a legitimate response to crime. It presents the...
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Restorative social work.
by Kidd, Jason Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Master’s Thesis. School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences. University of Queensland. On graduating as a social worker, I embarked on my career equipped with a personal practice framework based on theories which combined elements of structural, radical, pro-feminist...
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The rights of the young person in the New Zealand youth justice family group conference.
by Lynch, Nessa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) University of Otago. The youth justice family group conference (FGC) is a statutory decision making process whereby the young person, their family/whanau, state officials and the victim of the offence come together to decide on a response to offending by that young person. The...
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Victims to Partners: Child Victims and Restorative Justice.
by Gal, Tali
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The Australian National University. This thesis combines an examination of children’s human rights (articulated largely in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) with a review of psycho-social literature...
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Addressing Victim’s Harm: the Role of Impact Reports.
by van der Merwe, Annette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Thomas Jefferson Law Review. 30:391-406. This Article focuses on the sentencing phase in child sexual abuse cases, and, in particular, evaluates the practice of receiving information in the form of a victim impact statement. It then highlights South African courts’ recent...
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‘This thing called reconciliation…‘ forgiveness as part of an interconnectedness-towards-wholeness.
by Krog, Antjie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) South African Journal of Philosophy. 27(4):353-366. Regular reference is made, within the discourse around the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to the fact that ubuntu, an indigenous world view, played a role in the process. This paper tries to show that...
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Toward a theory of change in community-based practice with youth: A case-study exploration
by Chaskin, Robert J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Children and Youth Services Review (2009), doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.07.012. Community organizations are potentially important mechanisms to support the well-being of children, youth, and their families in ways that are responsive and appropriate to their particular...
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Another Kind of Justice: Transitional Justice as Recognition.
by Haldemann, Frank
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Cornell International Law Journal. 41(2):675-737. Building on this basic intuition, this article undertakes to further consider the idea of a “different kind of justice,” one that is less vindictive and state-centered and is more caring and responsive to human...
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Reconciliation and Iraq: Faith-based Advice for the Next President.
by Philpott, Daniel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) The Review of Faith and International Affairs. 6(3): 9-14. Is peacebuilding, in Iraq or anywhere else, a problem for which religious ethics can provide guidance? Christian and Jewish ethicists in the U.S. had more to say about defeating Saddam Hussein than about the difficult...
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Teen Court: What Jurors Can Tell Us About the Process.
by Forgays, Deborah Kirby
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Juvneile and Family Court Journal. Winter (2004):25-33. Teen courts are on the increase throughout the United States. These courts provide an opportunity for youth offenders to receive sentences from their adolescent peers rather than from an adult panel or judge. Yet, we know...
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